Wednesday, March 15, 2017

The hit job that wasn't

The real news in the piece comes in its remarkable concession in the sixth graph.

“But it is not clear how well the two know each other,” the Times writes of the judge and the billionaire, as if to apologize for the forthcoming banality.

This is innuendo edging up to the line of fake news, coming right on the heels of Rachel Maddow's Geraldo Rivera moment, which plays into Trump's effort to play the press as a foil. Why do they feed into further distrust in the media? I suspect it's because MSNBC and the NY Times play to their audience, despite their earnest statements that "the truth matters more than ever."